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5 unusual facts about Nyanza Province


Collela Mazee

Ochieng Nelly Mengo was born in Nyanza in 1950 and developed interest in music while still at school.

HIV/AIDS in Africa

As of 2012, Nyanza Province had the highest HIV prevalence rate at 13.9 percent, with the North Eastern Province having the lowest rate at 0.9 percent.

Maboko Island

Maboko Island is a small island lying in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in Nyanza Province of western Kenya.

Nyanza Province

Others include the independence fighters and socialist politicians Achieng Oneko and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the latter's son Prime Minister Raila Odinga, former ministers Robert Ouko and Tom Mboya, and the historian Bethwell Allan Ogot.

Phares Oluoch Kanindo

Kanindo was born at the present Awendo District in Nyanza Province of Kenya to the late Andrea Anindo and Masella Ojowi Anindo.


Ansorge's brush-furred rat

The species was first identified as L. ansorgei in Mumias, Nyanza Province in 1896.

Charles William Hobley

Ultimately, Hobley became Provincial Commissioner of Kavirondo Region (later called Nyanza Province) and later (circa 1909) sub-commissioner of Ukamba Province (stationed in Nairobi).

Henry Odera Oruka

Henry Odera Oruka (June 1, 1944, Nyanza Province–December 9, 1995, Nairobi) was a Kenyan philosopher who is best known for Sage Philosophy, a project started in the 1970s in an attempt to preserve the knowledge of the indigenous thinkers in traditional African communities.

Legio Maria

In 1963 a movement of dissatisfied Roman Catholics in South Nyanza Province left the Diocese of Kisii and formed the Legio Maria Church, or Legion of Mary Church, under the leadership of the Lodvikus-son of God Simeo Melkio Ondetto and an old mystic woman named Mama Maria.


see also

Kageno

Kageno's first project was founded on Rusinga Island - a small and remote island in Nyanza Province on Lake Victoria in Western Kenya.

Obwolo Primary School

Obwolo Primary School is located in Kajulu ward, Winam Division, Kisumu District, Kisumu Town East Constituency, Kisumu County, Nyanza province (Kenya).

Pasha Centre

The other five locations are Malindi (Coast Province), South Imenti (Eastern Province), Garrisa (North-Eastern Province), Siaya (Nyanza Province) and Mukuru Kiaba (Nairobi Province).

Ruma National Park

Dubbed the "Last Retreat of the Roan Antelope", Ruma National Park is the only terrestrial park in Nyanza Province.